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Duplicate content when uploading articles on other websites

We regularly write articles on our website and then submit them to different websites with link backs or sometimes without link backs.

If google crawls these websites and our website, will it penalise us for duplicate content? Does it make a difference if we put link back to our site or not? If Google sees it as duplicate content, what should we do as a solution?

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if not use rel=canonical tag to point back to originalthe serch engine will see only one page as original, the others wont be penalized they just wont get any credit for the contenti put rel canonical in all pages so if some oone copies my site the will more than lickly copy the rel=coanonical tag also

2) your article subs vary from directory to directory, increasing the likelyhood that more of them will stay in the main index and perhaps pass you some visibility and traffic in addition to link equity.

Another thing I would recommend and this is just a personal preference.... don't link your distributed article back to its twin on your site. instead link it to a different article on your site that may be related... or to a category page of related articles.

This is mainly a UX thing. Why would someone want to read the same article twice? If they just got done reading it they arent going to follow a link just to read it a second time :-)

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